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Can you explain a little more ? --[[User:Dieudo|Dieudonné]] 21:49, 20 December 2005 (CET) | Can you explain a little more ? --[[User:Dieudo|Dieudonné]] 21:49, 20 December 2005 (CET) | ||
| − | I knew there was a page on social change. So on a page where social change was mentioned i made a link to [[Social change]]. But it looked like a link to a page that doesn't exist. So i checked the spelling and the actual page is [[Social Change]]. I imagine this kind of thing is going to happen many times to me and other people. I checked right away and fixed it, but not everyone will do this, and we will end up with multiple pages on the same topic, creating lots of work for wiki editors to merge pages, fix links, etc. So, i am wondering if there is a setting for MediaWiki that we can change so that it treats [[Social Change]], [[Social change]], [[social Change]] and [[social change]] all as the same thing. --[[User:John Abbe|John Abbe]] 02:17, 21 December 2005 (CET) | + | I knew there was a page on social change. So on a page where social change was mentioned i made a link to [[Social change]]. But it looked like a link to a page that doesn't exist. So i checked the spelling and the actual page is [[Social Change]]. I imagine this kind of thing is going to happen many times to me and other people. I checked right away and fixed it, but not everyone will do this, and we will end up with multiple pages on the same topic, creating lots of work for wiki editors to merge pages, fix links, etc. So, i am wondering if there is a setting for MediaWiki that we can change so that it treats [[Social Change]], [[Social change]], [[social Change]] and [[social change]] all as the same thing. (aha, i see that the 2nd and 4th ones are already treated as the same!) --[[User:John Abbe|John Abbe]] 02:17, 21 December 2005 (CET) |
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Are you willing to expand on "SisterSites" a little?
- John Abbe wrote
- « Is it possible to have MediaWiki ignore capitalization, so that a link to "Social change" goes to a page called "Social Change" ? »
Can you explain a little more ? --Dieudonné 21:49, 20 December 2005 (CET)
I knew there was a page on social change. So on a page where social change was mentioned i made a link to Social change. But it looked like a link to a page that doesn't exist. So i checked the spelling and the actual page is Social Change. I imagine this kind of thing is going to happen many times to me and other people. I checked right away and fixed it, but not everyone will do this, and we will end up with multiple pages on the same topic, creating lots of work for wiki editors to merge pages, fix links, etc. So, i am wondering if there is a setting for MediaWiki that we can change so that it treats Social Change, Social change, social Change and social change all as the same thing. (aha, i see that the 2nd and 4th ones are already treated as the same!) --John Abbe 02:17, 21 December 2005 (CET)
